Seymour Siegel

Seymour Siegel (12 September 1927-24 February 1988) was an American Conservative Jewish rabbi and Republican Party advisor.

Biography
Seymour Siegel was born in New York City, New York in 1927, and he taught Holocaust studies in the mid-1960s before becoming a pioneer in medical and religious ethics. Siegel became an ethics and theology professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and he also served as Executive Director of the US Holocaust Memorial Council from 1983 to 1984. Siegel served as an adviser to Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan, but he supported the ordination of female rabbis. He died in 1988.